> On 2007-09-15 03:40, Dag Nygren revealed:
> 
> DN> You could also consider changing the OS to Linux ;-)
> 
> Or Solaris, which has better tape support IMO. :P

It might, but then you need new hardware.

> And one of the new features in the latest Windows 2003 service pack is 
> that network I/O can now be handeled by several CPUs, which might be a 
> good thing on a networker server, if you don't want to switch to a real 
> OS. Or at least one that is better suited for networker and backups. :)

Indeed 2003 is overall handling the Networker load better than 2000
even without the newest service pack. This because 2000 has a huge performance
problem because of networking and  tape access competing for the same
buffer pool; Generally limits the throughput of the Networker server
to a total average of 20MB/s (SCSI) or about 30 MB/s (FC).

Best
Dag

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